"0tterbot" wrote in message news:lJgpj.10637
"Trish Brown" wrote in message

i have been a negligent in my sewing activites lately :-( but i still love
spotlight!

I hate the one that you and I would have access to. There are only about 3
decent staff in the place who know anything about fabric and I hate most of
the fabric they have because the quality is almost universally lousy.

I went in there to buy some japara that I'd seen a week before and of couse
they'd done a rearrangement and I had to go through 5 staff before i found
one who even knew what japara was.

that is bad news (about the drainage). whenever i see those diagrams of
"how to make drainage trenches" in books, i feel very sad for anyone
reading them with a special interest. jackie french (rather typically!!!)
breezily writes that one can "plant them on mounds" if drainage is bad.

It works for Paul D. who has the mudbrick house and the trout ponds outside
his balcony as that is how he plants his trees.